Evaluate, Engage, Empower – Childrens’s rights, Youth Goals and Partnership Erasmus Project

Project Title

Evaluate, Engage, Empower – Childrens’s rights, Youth Goals and Partnership

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Within the European community there is an increasing disintegration through discriminatory and populist policies & practices. In addition there is a growing tendency (intensified by Covid-19) towards nationalism and closed borders. This has to be countered by transnational cooperation and public spirit among active EU citizens. We as youth organisations make an important contribution by creating spaces where young people can come together, get involved and experience self-efficacy. Although the working cultures and objectives of youth organisations in Europe can be (formulated) very different(ly), we are convinced that there is a common interest: to recognise the concrete needs of young people and to create an environment in which they can develop their potential. In this Context our project: “Evaluate, engage, empower – yoth work … ” is placed, as we see the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Youth Goals as useful instruments for us to learn more about shared values in our youth work practice in a transnational context and to support each other in developing our self-image as European institutions.
And as the overall topic of this project are the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Youth Goals, we want to strengthen partnerships that foster children’s rights and lead to a realization of the Youth Goals in each partaking organisation and the community they are part of. Therefore, in our project we – four youth organisations from Germany, France, Romania and Slovenia – want to:
– EVALUATE our practice and learn from each other and strengthen our common values as youth actors in Europe
– ENGAGE the participation of young people as active euopean citizens and support local civic Engagement
– EMPOWER young people to take charge of their own lives and be able to work in transnational contexts.
Our central project goals are:
* To integrate children’s rights into our organisational structures and working cultures as a foundation on which youth organisations (should) stand.
* To develop concrete recommendations for transnational youth work in Europe, which can be used by multipliers and volunteers in the partner regions and beyond.
* Reflecting on and further developing our own youth work practice in relation to the “European Youth Goals”.
* Establish and deepen stable transnational partnerships that form the basis for future cooperation in the transnational field (e.g. ESC, youth meetings and camps).
With our plan to evaluate each other and work towards an integration of those rights into the organizational sphere, we hope to support educators and youth workers in their daily work, by designing a guideline for human rights based methods. While researching this topic we found the European network project “Youth for Human Rights” which is an excellent starting point for indepth examination and the testing of practical implementation. In order to strengthen our advocacy for the rights & social participation of young people in Europe, we need to share knowledge and best practice with each other. A network of solidarity, pooling resources and capacities, will help us to respond more effectively to the challenges mentioned above.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64815 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bezirksjugendwerk der AWO Hessen-Süd e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Ligue de l’Enseignement Nouvelle Aquitaine
• DRUSTVO LOJTRA DRUSTVO ZA OSEBNI IN POKLICNI RAZVOJ MLADIH
• ASOCIATIA CURBA DE CULTURA